Archive for the “Kara” Category

Ok, so Fim is on vacation, and SOMEONE had to have a kara pun title, so I’ll apologize for my lame attempt now, and we’ll move on. And yes, I realize it was a druid pun, not a kara pun but…we’re moving on now!

Jess had an awesome night. Now, I always have a blast in Kara. I’m among the oddballs that still love the place. It was waning for a while, but with Jess being 70, and healing in there, it’s been rejuvenating. My BEST memories of this game have been in Kara, with my old guild as well as my new one. I still miss those guys though, I need to hop over and say hi soon. Anyhow, back to tonight. I sat out last night, we only run with two healers and I lost the coin toss..lol. But I signed up for tonight, just in case I was needed and I got an invite! I said my prayers to the loot gods and took the summon. First up, a friendly game of chess, we of course won. No leather boot love, but I’ll keep trying. I REALLY want those boots. Leather healing boots with two blue sockets make me drool. Onwards and upwards we go, to Prince.

Prince insists on doing something buggy every time we try him. It’s like he says hey it’s Mythos again! What freaky thing can I do tonight? I know! I’ll two shot the tank. Poor Foose. We got him on attempt…2 or 3? I can’t remember. But he went down so hard his head was through the wall. There was some discussion that his head actually was severed and fell down the ravine, they don’t call that weapon the The Decapitator for nothing. This is where my dice decided 79 was my lucky number. the tier 4 token drops…I roll 79, and win. of course I could have won with a 1, since everyone passed. Then Light’s Justice appears! I rolled…79. And I won again! Ok, by default, everyone passed, but double 79’s!! And now I have my antlers!! I popped a +26 healing meta gem in there, and a +18 healing ruby, just need that glyph.

On to Netherspite (AKA: The Beam Dragon, for those like me that mix up our Kara dragons), we kill him, and decide he should not skin into knothide leather scraps! then move on to Nightbane (AKA: That $%&*#@ Dragon). I believe we had 3 attempts on him before we killed him. And he decides HE loves the healers.  Stonebough Jerkin drops, as well as Nightstaff of the Everliving. I have the windhawk piece, so I was prepared to pass. But was convinced to roll, due to the fact that it rarely drops (they don’t recall ever seeing it), and it would be great for when I break up Windhawk. So I rolled. Not a 79! But I was the only one, so it’s mine. Which means, if I replace my bracers and belt, I can drop leatherworking and get Herbalism in the future. Woot! The nightstaff was rolled on for vendor to pad the repair bills.

As of now, unbuffed I’m at 1528 bonus healing, and 511 spirit. I have enough badges for an idol, but I think I’ll save for my pants, and hope one drops. I’m not going to farm slabs for the lifebloom one, but if I get it great, if I don’t, my rejuv one is fine.

Tomorrow we try Gruul again. This weekend I’ll probably try to get some heroics in, maybe even Shattered Halls. Definitely need to run Black Morass again, so I can have my own key to Kara.  Squeeee!! I love my druid!

  Last night was Kara part deux. Chess, Prince, Netherspite, Maiden. Chess opted to not drop the leather healing boots yet. But That’s OK, I have the cloth ones from shade. Prince was a bit stubborn about dying. Until we decided it was Time For Fhuun. We weren’t having much luck with just 2 healers, one being me the Tree of Noob. Once Fhuun joined in though it went smoothly. our poor bear druid still didn’t get his Helm of Awesome, but my hubby got his when the rogue token dropped. I got a nice neck for offspec. Clearly, I’ll be the opposite of Fimlys and have my boomkin set filled in before my tree spec. After Prince we moved down to Netherspite, who was generous enough to give me Pantaloons of Repentance. I got them gemmed, just need the healing thread. That’s going to take some work, but in the end I’ll gain over 50 healing over my Pants of Living Growth. As you can see I already equipped them anyhow, as the base stats  were an improvement. Then came the Maiden. Now, I saw the plate gloves drop. And I HEARD the raid leader say “She dropped a shard”. I took this to mean…shard the bracers, and that was that. Then they linked it…Shard of the Virtuous. And gave me a little ribbing…hehe. With all this cloth, I think I’m officially a cottonwood tree.

Now this run had me saying oops a few times. Once, when I totally forgot to use Barkskin during the axes on Prince, and again during Netherspite when I was the healer staying in during banish, and the priests says “Syn are you out of mana?” OOPS! Sadly I had to take a pot to innervate. I think I just slipped into priest mode for a moment there, and forgot I had Innervate. Either way, I gave myself plenty of chances to laugh at myself. I’m sure I’ll be better next time.

Happy Fourth All!! This is the last I’ll be blogging now until my Mom goes home. At least about WoW. Now that I’ve officially moved my personal blog over, I’ll have that to blog about too.

Last night was Syn’s first run at Kara as a tree. Nothing like a trial by fire to see what you still need to improve on, but that’s ok. It was a night of unusual behaviours. And not just from us. First, Attumen’s friends in the other room decided to join the party. I knew something was amiss when I was suddenly on fire. That has never been an Attumen standard attack. Noone knows how they got pulled, or why but maybe Attumen paid them extra? Moroes went off without a hitch. Oh…no…wait, we got a full table instead of half the table. Wiping on trash reminds us that we’re all human (oids). after that Moroes went off without a hitch, and we moved on to opera. I didn’t get the red riding hood debuff!! That is a first! Curator went down smooth and easy, Shade…not so much. I’m a little sore from the Hunter’s pet falling on me, but we did finally get through it. I wound up with some new healy boots (so much for refusing to wear cloth…they’ll do til chess gives up my forest lord striders).

Memorable Quotes:

“You went down faster than my global cooldown!”- Me on a tank death on the darned mobs on moroes that get our tanks drunk.

“Anything you say can and will be blogged against you” – our mage, after Fim said someone should blog that first quote.

What We Have Learned (we being me):

No matter how experienced your group is, and no matter how much easier blizz has made Kara…you can still wipe on trash, or on the first boss when one thing goes wrong.

Tree healing rocks, and we wonder why we ever hated healing?

And I learned I really do prefer healing to DPS’ing in a fight, so don’t be surprised if Jessmyn finds her way back to the light from the shadow.